Overview

• Harriet Slater and Jamie Roy say their immediate on-set rapport helped ground the episode’s intimate chapel moment in genuine vulnerability.
• Slater describes the chapel build as “straight out of a fairytale,” highlighting real foliage, bugs, and practical hurdles like layered skirts and stubborn corset strings.
• The actors recount rehearsing the sequence to navigate costumes and choreography, with Slater recalling a beetle plucked from her hair during the shoot.
• Slater reflects on delivering the line “Ruin me,” noting its period-specific meaning and her aim to convey Ellen’s agency without modern misreadings.
• Rory Alexander discusses Murtagh’s emotional state during the festival and teases a forthcoming confrontation with Brian as consequences begin to surface.